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The Leaven of the Ancients: Suhrawardi and the Heritage of the Greeks (Suny Series in Islam) by John Walbridge

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The Leaven of the Ancients: Suhrawardi and the Heritage of the Greeks (Suny Series in Islam) John Walbridge
Language: English
Page: 305
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0791443604, 9780791443606
Publisher: State University of New York Press

About the Author

John Walbridge is Associate Professor in the Departments of Near Eastern Languages and Philosophy at Indiana University. He has published several books including The Science of Mystic Lights: Qutb al-Din Shirazi and the Illuminationist Tradition in Islamic Philosophy.
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The Work of Mourning. Jacques Derrida, Michael Naas, Pascale-Anne Brault

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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Language: English
Page: 272
ISBN: 0226143163, 9780226143163

From Publishers Weekly

A combination elegy, introductory text and act of appropriation, Jacques Derrida's The Work of Mourning finds the French ber-philosophe writing about the lives and works of departed contemporaries Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Paul De Man and 10 others in biographically based chapters. What emerges are strikingly sympa meditations on friendship (which Derrida has already written about eloquently and at length), on shared vocations and avocations and on philosophy and history.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Over the last decade, Derrida (Of Grammatology), the doyen of deconstruction, has turned his attention to questions of ethics and politics. While the obtuse philosophical musings and sometimes torturous prose of his earlier books often frustrated readers, his more recent books (e.g., The Politics of Friendship) offer glimpses of Derrida's struggles to grapple honestly with the traces and aphorias of being that mark his more theoretical work. In this collection of funeral orations, letters of condolence, memorial essays, and eulogies, some published for the first time in English, Derrida celebrates close friends even as he grieves over their loss. The act of mourning, he says, begins as soon as friendship begins, for "one of the two of you will inevitably see the other one die." But the work of mourning is also a memorial act, for the other is alive in us, even after death. Characteristically, Derrida demonstrates the inextricable bond between name and memory; hearers remember a person when we speak his or her name, and thus we keep our friends alive. Some of these 14 pieces are marked by turgid prose, but others poignantly wrestle with life's ultimate mystery. Even so, this book will be most appropriate for academic libraries and large public libraries where Derrida is popular. Henry L. Carrigan Jr., Lancaster, PA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Methods in Cell Biology Volume 29 Fluorescence Microscopy of Living Cells in Culture, Part A by Yu-Li Wang

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Methods in Cell Biology Volume 29 Fluorescence Microscopy of Living Cells in Culture, Part A Yu-Li Wang
Language: English
Page: 349
Format: pdf
ISBN: 012564129X, 9780125641296
Publisher: Academic Press

Investigations in mathematics using the HP-48G. Donald R. Latorre

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Investigations in mathematics using the HP-48G Donald R. Latorre. djvu ebook
Publisher: Charles River Media
Language: English
Page: 648
ISBN: 1886801231,

Use HP-48 G/GXC graphing calculator technology to aid in the computation and visualization of key subjects in the mathematics sequence: Calculus, Differential Equations, Vector Calculus and Linear Algebra. Inlcudes DOS diskette with a collection of special purpose.

Nursing in the Community: An Essential Guide to Practice (One Stop Doc Revision Series). Sue Chilton, Karen Melling, Dee Drew, Ann Clarridge

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Publisher:
Language: English
Page: 120
ISBN: 0340810432, 9780340810439

Review

Good for an over view, for pre-registration students and further sources for reference. -- University Plymouth 18991230 Good introduction for community. I like the structure around learning outcomes and tasks to do. -- Mrs J Sime, Department of Nursing, University Coll 18991230 The quartet of authors fulfils the promise of the title. The book is user-friendly, with each chapter displaying learning outcomes and incorporating a scattering of exercises, reflection and examples to encourage the reader to relate theory and practice. -- Nursing Standard 20041124

About the Author

Sue Chilton MSc, BNurs, RN, DN, HV, PGCE, DNT Senior Lecturer, University of Central England in Birmingham and Staff Nurse, District Nursing Service, Cotswold and Vale Primary Care Trust, UK Karen Melling MA, PGCEA, RDNT, PWT, DN, RN Senior Lecturer, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK Dee Drew MSc, RGN, DN Senior Lecturer, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK Ann Clarridge MSc, BSc (Hons), PGCEA, DNT, RN, DN Principal Lecturer, London South Bank University, London, UK

Encyclopedia Of Medieval Literature (Encyclopedia of World Literature). Jay Ruud

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Publisher: Facts on File
Language: English
Page: 734
ISBN: 0816054975, 9780816054978

From

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature includes around 700 entries, covering the time period roughly 500 to 1500 C.E. Entries include authors, works, genres, and other literary and historical terms that inform the literature of the period. The encyclopedia targets upper-level high-school students and lower-level undergraduates.

Alphabetical, cross-referenced entries are generally half a page to a page, and many are followed by bibliographies. Aids to access include a table of "Writers Covered, by Language of Composition" and an author time line. Each entry concludes with a bibliography, and a selected bibliography of more general reference works and primary and secondary sources rounds out the book.

Witers from 25 language are covered, representing a variety of African, east Asian, European, Indian subcontinent, and Middle Eastern cultures. (In contrast, the Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature, published by Greenwood in 2000, concentrates on British literature, with no entries for Chinese, Indian, and northern European literatures.) Entries on religious works and movements are included, although there are no general entries on homilies, monasteries, or the role of monks. Oddly, this volume expects students to look under Vulgate, The for an entry on the Bible.

Given the inclusion of such a wide range of cultures, translation and contact feature prominently. Also covered is the influence of women writers, including entries on individual women writers and overviews on women writers from some cultures.

The author is a seasoned scholar with the experience necessary for the undertaking. Expansive in breadth but still accessible, the Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature is recommended for high-school, public, and undergraduate libraries. It is an inclusive, easy-to-use volume providing a wide cross section of literature that challenges narrow views of the literature of the time. Joseph Thomas
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Rock'n'roll piano: the complete guide with CD by Andy Vinter

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Rock'n'roll piano: the complete guide with CD Andy Vinter
Language: English
Page: 56
Format: pdf
ISBN: 063405046X, 9780634050466
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

With this pack, you'll learn the skills you need to take your place alongside Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and other great rock 'n' roll piano players of the '50s and '60s! The CD includes demos and backing tracks so you can play along with every example. Also includes six complete tunes at the end of the book. Topics covered include: left-hand patterns; basic rock 'n' roll progressions; right-hand techniques; straight eighths vs. swing eighths; glisses, crushed notes, rolls and note clusters; how to solo; influential players, styles and recordings; and much more!

Telling Our Stories: Continuities and Divergences in Black Autobiographies by Adetayo Alabi

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Telling Our Stories: Continuities and Divergences in Black Autobiographies Adetayo Alabi
Language: English
Page: 208
Format: pdf
ISBN: 1403967873, 9781403980946
Publisher:

Review

"Black is the color of the autobiographies that Adetayo Alabi rereads in Telling Our Stories. Slaves, creative writers, and political activists, the self-conscious narrators in writing and through readers create communities and establish continuities - across both centuries and continents, from the African slave trade to the United States civil rights movement and the Caribbean 'lionhearted gal.' Alabi's radical reactivation of autobiography as a genre of resistance and mobilization is a compelling inquiry into a critical past and on behalf of an even more crucial promise."--Barbara Harlow, The University of Texas at Austin

"Alabi's book is a long overdue and most welcome addition to the scholarly library on 'the African diaspora.' A major distinguishing mark of this field of study is the exploration of the links between regional segments of the Black world, in terms of continuities and divergences in their recognition of their common racial backgrounds and histories. Alabi makes two other valuable contributions to this field: one, an inclusion of oral African texts in his discussion of the genre; and two, an especially welcome interrogation of the concept of 'autobiography' employed in Western discourses of the genre. Now I am finally ready to teach the course I have been planning for!"--Isidore Okpewho, State University of New York, Binghamton

"The book offers a dexterous analysis of three fundamental terms of modern black self definition: individuality, communality, and resistance. Alabi teaches readers of black autobiography how tropes of individualism dwells in narratives of the collective."--Adélékè Adéèkò, University of Colorado, Boulder

“This book theorizes on testimonial narratives from both sides of the Atlantic. Race, class, and gender go “marching on” in this significant cross-cultural analysis. Telling Our Stories convenes a trans-Atlantic exegetical festival with familiar voices of modern griots such as Nelson Mandela, Wole Soyinka, Frederick Douglass, Maya Angelou, Malcolm X, and Derek Walcott. Shifting the focus of creative burden from self to community, and their interface, the p0testimonial narrative embodies the oral-written agency, signaling a celebration of both political resistance and innovation. With the publication of this substantial comparative work, Adetayo Alabi has dared to enter the often dreaded forest of a thousand critical dis-junctures—carefully synthesizing in order to illuminate our understanding of naming, place, and identity in African and African diasporan discourse and cultures.”--Niyi Afolabi, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. "This is a solid contribution to Black autobiographical discourse. Its unique strength is in the bridge it builds between the African and the diasporan. It is a book that shows the autobiographical genre as central to understanding the life
continuities, the survival, and the identity of the Black person in postimperial Africa and its diaspora. It is the work of a scholar whose knowledge of Black oral and written traditions and of contemporary western theories provides him formidable skills in handling the materials. It is a must read for teachers, students, and cultural theorists."--Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah, Western Illinois University

About the Author

Adetayo Alabi obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan. Before joining the University of Mississippi as Assistant Professor of English, specializing in World Literature, he taught Postcolonial and International Literatures at Millikin University in Illinois and at the University of Windsor in Canada. He published entries in the Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures and in The Companion to African Literatures. He has also published chapters in books, including Ogoni's Agonies: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Crisis in Nigeria, The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities, and Marvels of the African World: African Cultural Patrimony, New World Connections, and Identities; and in journals like Liwuram, African Literature Today, and In-Between.

SAM Combat Colours Number 1: The Messerschmitt Bf 109E on the Western.. by Peter Scott

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SAM Combat Colours Number 1: The Messerschmitt Bf 109E on the Western.. Peter Scott
Language: English
Page: 60
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0953904032,
Publisher: Guideline Publications

Reading Hosea in Achaemenid Yehud (JSOT Supplement) by James M. Trotter

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Reading Hosea in Achaemenid Yehud (JSOT Supplement) James M. Trotter
Language: English
Page: 242
Format: pdf
ISBN: 1841271977, 9781841271972
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press

About the Author

James M. Trotter is Lecturer in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. >